Talk:Hiba Kawas

"Pioneer of Arabic Opera" - Citation needed
I had removed the sentence: She is known as "The Pioneer of Arabic Opera" because it is a claim unsupported by reliable references that are independent of the article's subject. Another editor has re-added it. I have left it but added a Citation needed tag. Please do not remove that tag until that claim is reliably referenced. Also, please do not put phrases like that in bold letters. This is not the style used on Wikipedia. Bolding is used only for sub-headings and for the name of the subject in the first sentence of the article. This is an encyclopedia article not a web site for Hiba Kawas. Voceditenore (talk) 12:03, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

I have restored the citation needed tag. The French Wikipedia article does not say that she is a "pioneer of Arabic opera" and the article is completely unreferenced. Please do not remove this tag again until a proper reference is provided. Voceditenore (talk) 14:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I have gone ahead and removed that statement as several notable composers before Kawas birth have written and staged operas in Arabic. If anyone deserves the title "the Pioneer of Arabic Opera" it's Hasan Rashid who wrote the first Arabic opera in the 1940s, with a partial staging in 1942 (30 years before the birth of Hiba Kawas) and a fully mounted production in 1976.Nrswanson (talk) 17:35, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I was reading your comment about the Pioneering of the Arabic Opera, when the sentence "Known as the Pioneer of Arabic Opera" was added, it was because in the Arab world it is known that she is the one who developed the technique for voice of using the Operatic techniques with Arabic letters, without souunding as Italian or German, but rather "preserving the Aabic letters and Arabic traditional sining" with these techniques, also the composition she does combines both worlds the Arabic music spirit and the Occidental techniques. So it is not only a concern of composing Opera of imitation or it is not also an Opera in Arabic but rather an Arabic Opera. Her vocal techniques that she has developed for the Arabic letters, now are going to be usued in music academies in the Arab world. So it is a different experience building a solid ground for reaching to an Arabic Opera. The problem is most of the Articles about this are in Arabic, where we can not depend on them as citation.--Editorial7 (talk) 22:14, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. However, I still think it is a rather inaccurate title and somewhat disrespectful of other composers who made substantial in roads within Arabic Opera, namely writing operas in Arabic, before she was even born. Her own website says she wrote the first Arabic Opera which is totally not true. Also, I know for a fact that other composers of classical Arabic vocal music during the past seventy-five years have considered the problems you mention above with the phonation of Arabic in classical singing, so I don't think she is really the first in that area either. She's obviously a talented individual and doing important work, but credit to those who have come before is just professional courtesy. If the media in the Arab world is saying these things than I would have to say they are ignorant of the history of opera in the Arabic world and are failing to give credit where credit is due. I find Kawas' claims to be full of hubris. Her website also says she is the first female Arabic composer which is another outright false statement. Several women in the Arabic world have been composers prior to Kawas' birth, let alone other contemporary composers.Nrswanson (talk) 23:11, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

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